skype
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How to Set Up Skype’s Active Noise Cancellation on Your Desktop
“Zoom” may have overtaken “Skype” as the preferred shorthand for making video calls, but Microsoft’s chat service hasn’t gone anywhere. The newest Skype upgrade brings an active noise cancellation setting (ANC) to desktops and laptops, which filters out background sounds while keeping your voice audible.
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How To Customise Your Background In Skype Video Calls
There’s little I enjoy more than a the well-executed use of a silly background in a video chat. While this quirky feature used to be exclusive to Zoom, more apps are integrating the functionality—including, recently, Microsoft Teams, and now, Microsoft’s own Skype app.
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Here Are All The Companies Secretly Recording Your Conversations
If you’re on the internet, there’s a good chance you’re probably using a program or app that listens to audio recordings without your knowledge. Some of the biggest companies in the world have admitted in recent weeks they’ve been hiring human contractors to monitor snippets of your queries and in some cases, your conversations with…
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Combine All Your Messaging Apps With Volt
Between Slack, WhatsApp!, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Hangouts and Telegram, I’ve been known to miss a message or two as I suffer from notification fatigue and forget to go back to an app. Volt aims to end that pain by delivering a single messaging platform that brings a bunch of different messaging systems to a single…